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From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: Alistair John Strachan <alistair@devzero.co.uk>,
	Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.26-rc1
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 01:48:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4820EE36.7010102@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4820C3D8.6040403@s5r6.in-berlin.de>

I wrote:
> Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>> If you remove the select's for MSP3400, TVP5150 and SAA7113, at, 
>> em28xx, the module will compile without problems.
>>
>> The only issue is that you won't be able to see any images (due to the 
>> lack of tvp5150 or saa7113 analog TV demoduler) or listen to the audio,
>> if the device needs msp3400 to decode audio.
> [...]
> Ah, now I understand.  You use "select" to enable options which aren't 
> actually a build requirement for the selecting option.

PS:
I believe the canonical way to express _runtime_ dependencies in Kconfig 
(in contrast to build dependencies) is not "select", but "help".
-- 
Stefan Richter
-=====-==--- -=-= --===
http://arcgraph.de/sr/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-06 23:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <8287f540805041818g534c4e02qaadb0e749c5f3439@mail.gmail.com>
2008-05-03 19:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-03 21:47   ` Alistair John Strachan
2008-05-03 21:53     ` Alistair John Strachan
2008-05-04 12:30       ` Robin Holt
2008-05-04 13:56         ` Alistair John Strachan
2008-05-04 16:09           ` Robin Holt
2008-05-04 16:33             ` Alistair John Strachan
2008-05-05 21:04             ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-06  8:02               ` Alistair John Strachan
2008-05-06 10:31                 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-06 14:34                   ` Stefan Richter
2008-05-06 14:54                     ` Stefan Richter
2008-05-06 19:13                     ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-06 19:44                       ` Stefan Richter
2008-05-06 20:06                         ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-06 20:47                           ` Stefan Richter
2008-05-06 22:39                             ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-06 23:36                               ` Stefan Richter
2008-05-08 12:48                                 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-08 14:11                                   ` Stefan Richter
2008-05-06 23:48                             ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2008-05-04  7:29   ` [patch] sysfs: build fix Ingo Molnar
2008-05-04 18:40   ` Linux 2.6.26-rc1 Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-05  5:39   ` Andreas Mohr
2008-05-05  7:30     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-05 20:14       ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-06 13:07         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-07  8:35           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-05 23:51       ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-05-05 23:55         ` David Miller
2008-05-06  0:16           ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-06  5:57             ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-05-06  0:21           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-06  5:35           ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-05-06  6:56             ` David Miller
2008-05-06  7:26               ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-05-06  0:17         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-06  5:48           ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-05-06  6:07   ` Scheduling problems ? [ Was: Linux 2.6.26-rc1 ] J.A. Magallón
2008-05-06 13:11     ` Ingo Molnar

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